Did he smoke it? Please tell me the Beatles got super high and smoked an entire bass.

Edit: ugh... Not only did they not smoke it, the entire article is two sentences with zero context.

Following the launch of last year's Lost Bass project, Paul’s 1961 Höfner 500/1 bass guitar, which was stolen in 1972, has been returned. The guitar has been authenticated by Höfner and Paul is incredibly grateful to all those involved.